The element system is xenogender system used to describe one's gender "element" or "essence". A gender element is one’s overall gender experience, including gender identity, gender expression, and gender alignment. It is not one’s actual gender, but (usually) interacts with it in some way, defines it, intermingles with it, or is otherwise an important aspect of it. For example, when somebody says that they are feminine, and they aren’t describing their gender expression or gender alignment, there gender element is what they would be referring to. Elements are varying in and of themselves (for example, water can be still, rough, clear, murky, or anything else). There is not anything inherently in common among people with the same element other than the fact that they are that element.
The element system uses five main elements. These elements can describe one's gender element on there own or they can be combined to make more complex elements. These element are as follows:
- Water, representing femininity. One whose gender element is purely feminine would be eluvian.
- Fire, representing masculinity. One whose gender element is purely masculine would be fervian.
- Earth, representing neutrality, similar to neutrois, it is not masculine, feminine, or xenine, but still present. One whose gender element is purely neutral would be tellusian.
- Air, representing an "undefined" element. Undefined is described as a gender element which "may change in a way that is hard to keep up with, impossible to describe or understand, or simply be vague and fleeting in nature, but it is present." One whose gender element is purely undefined would be ventulian.
- Spirit, representing xenine. One whose gender element is purely xenine would be alterian.
These five elements can be combined to make two element combinations, three element combinations, four element combination, and a five element combination, called vivician.
There is also an "element" for those who either reject or don’t have a gender element in some way, called vocivian.
History
The elemental system was created by the person running the Tumblr blog Genderelementarchive on December 23, 2017[1].